Adeniran, who spoke at a press briefing in Abuja on Monday, through the Director General of his Campaign Organisation, Alhaji Shehu Gabam, said his proposed action became necessary following alleged attempts by Makarfi and the caretaker committee to impose one of the aspirants as the national chairman.

Apart from that, Adeniran said that the South-West must produce the next chairman in the interest of the party.

The PDP had ceded the office of the national chairman to the South, while it also zoned its 2019 presidential ticket to the North.

The party said all the three zones in the South were free to contest the position of the national chairman.

The geopolitical zones are the South-East, South-South and the South-West.

But Adeniran said, “Anyone who underscores the importance of the South-West producing the next leader of the opposition, will be doing so at their own peril.”

Adeniran also accused the National Caretaker Committee headed by Makarfi of giving unfair advantage to one of the chairmanship aspirant, Prince Uche Secondus, in the battle for the national chairmanship race.

He said, “Some of Secondus supporters were sent by the party leadership to conduct congresses to produce delegates for the December 9 national convention without any consultation whatsoever with other aspirants

“Some of those who conducted delegates’ election are chief campaigners for Secondus. You have George Sekibo, Austin Opara and Emeka Ihedioha. An aspirant has its men entrenched in how the delegates emerged; we disagree on this.”

Because of the perceived irregularities, he said he might be forced to pull out of the peace accord, which he and others signed voluntarily, saying the management of the party was already breaching it.

Meanwhile, the National Vice-Chairman, South-West, Dr. Eddy Olafeso, has dismissed the rumour doing the rounds that the executive of the geopolitical zone has directed that the national chairmanship aspirants must come from a particular state.

Olafeso in a statement he personally signed on Monday said that it was “patently false as no such decision was taken, we only zoned other offices that were zoned to the South-West among all the states in the zone, and this action is traditional.”

He added, “The positions of the national chairman and the deputy national chairman are zoned to the southern states and as such is beyond the scope of the South-West zone to unilaterally adjudicate on, therefore we declare that all those gentlemen that have signified their intentions to contest for the above mentioned positions remain at liberty to continue to prosecute their ambitions without hindrance.

“For the avoidance of doubt, it is important that we underscore the fact that we did not zone to any particular state or person the eligibility to contest the position of the national chairman or deputy national chairman, all those aspiring possess the right to continue to ventilate their ambitions.”

Meanwhile, one of our correspondents gathered that the National Executive Committee of the party will meet in Abuja on Thursday where decisions will be taken on the composition of the convention planning committee.

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